Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.
Title
Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.
Description
The front cover provides some bibliographic information in Italian, translated here as: “Printed exclusively for the newspaper L’Italia 1500 Stockton Street, San Francisco, Cal.” This information is not on the title page.
This is the rare publication hybrid, in that this work was published in New York, but was printed for a San Francisco newspaper. Viola’s work reflects the Catholic faith that most of America’s Italians followed faithfully, the significant anti-clerical minority notwithstanding. It names and describes the saint, or saints in some cases, for every day of the year, as well as a list of patron saints for each profession.
A native of Pescara, the birthplace of poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, Viola (active, 1930s–1940s) was director of the Permanent Italian Book Exhibition in New York (a bookstore founded in 1928 to establish connections between Italian publishers and the American book-buying public), which contained 50,000 volumes in Italian. Viola studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music, and worked at international book stores like the Permanent Italian Book Exhibition in Boston and New York.
He directed the Italian section of The Atlantic Monthly, and wrote for the newspaper Il Corriere Siciliano, and the magazines Giovinezza [Youth] and La Settimana [The Week].
This is the rare publication hybrid, in that this work was published in New York, but was printed for a San Francisco newspaper. Viola’s work reflects the Catholic faith that most of America’s Italians followed faithfully, the significant anti-clerical minority notwithstanding. It names and describes the saint, or saints in some cases, for every day of the year, as well as a list of patron saints for each profession.
A native of Pescara, the birthplace of poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, Viola (active, 1930s–1940s) was director of the Permanent Italian Book Exhibition in New York (a bookstore founded in 1928 to establish connections between Italian publishers and the American book-buying public), which contained 50,000 volumes in Italian. Viola studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music, and worked at international book stores like the Permanent Italian Book Exhibition in Boston and New York.
He directed the Italian section of The Atlantic Monthly, and wrote for the newspaper Il Corriere Siciliano, and the magazines Giovinezza [Youth] and La Settimana [The Week].
Creator
Salvatore Viola
Publisher
Variety Bazaar & Italian Book
Date
1942
Format
19.5 x 13.5cm; 127 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Salvatore Viola, “Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/373.
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